Monday, 24 February 2014

Starsmith - Be My Love ft Tawiah

At the back end of 2010, prompted by his production success on the debut Ellie Goulding album we named one of the tallest men in pop, Fin Dow-Smith aka Starsmith, as One to Watch in 2011, suggesting that he was about to break through as an artist in his own right. That didn’t really happen, but that’s not to say that he’s fallen by the wayside. Instead he’s been focussing on production, remixes and songwriting, which has included working with the likes of Take That’s Mark Owen, Py, Fenech-Soler and most interestingly Charli XCX (Charli and Starsmith wrote something for Britney Spears although it didn’t see the light of day on Britney’s eighth and frankly terrible LP Britney Jean).But now here he is on his own terms with the first single proper to be released from his solo project, albeit the song features guest vocals from singer Tawiah who has previously been a backing vocalist for the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae, The Guillemots and Mark Ronson. Be My Love very much fits into the pop music that has sneaked into ‘da club’ bracket, maybe by hiding in Katy B’s handbag. Tawiah’s vocals have that soulful edge and together with Starsmith’s electronic production the whole track has a hands in the air white-wine spritzer Friday night on the town everybody’s free to feel good vibe about it. Lyrically it’s not going to win any prizes for originality, but sometimes just having a dance around the handbag (be it Katy B’s quite expensive one or your mate Hannah from the Accounts Department) is good enough.Starsmith - Be My Love ft Tawiah